Frontend Developer

About the Role

Have you ever wanted to shape not just features, but frontend architecture and engineering culture across multiple products? As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will play a critical role in defining UI architecture, setting engineering standards, and mentoring senior engineers while still being hands-on with complex frontend systems.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and DevOps teams to build scalable, high-performance SaaS products from the ground up—often version 1—across CAW’s growing product portfolio.

This role is ideal for engineers who combine deep React expertise, systems thinking, and technical leadership.

📍 Location: Hyderabad (Office) or Remote

What Will You Do?

Technical & Architecture Ownership

• Own frontend architecture and design decisions across one or more products.
• Define and evolve scalable UI patterns, component libraries, and frontend frameworks.
• Lead initiatives for performance optimization, accessibility, and cross-browser consistency.
• Drive adoption of best practices in TypeScript, state management, testing, and observability.
• Partner with backend teams on API contracts, data flow, and system boundaries.

Product & Execution

• Translate ambiguous product requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery-smooth user interfaces for complex workflows.
• Ensure frontend systems are reliable, testable, and production-ready.
• Diagnose and resolve hard performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Take end-to-end ownership of critical frontend modules.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor Senior and Mid-level Frontend Engineers.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives.
• Set quality benchmarks for frontend engineering across teams.
• Influence roadmap discussions with a strong engineering perspective.
• Be a role model for ownership, execution discipline, and technical excellence.

Experience Required

• 5-8 years of overall frontend engineering experience.
• 5+ years of deep React.js experience, building and scaling production SaaS products.
• Proven experience owning frontend systems at product or platform level.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Technical Skillset

Must Have

• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in React.js, including Hooks and modern patterns.
• Strong experience with state management (Redux, Context, or equivalent).
• Advanced proficiency in HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser internals.
• Hands-on experience with performance profiling and optimization.
• Experience with frontend testing strategies (unit, integration, E2E).
• Strong understanding of web storage, caching, and browser lifecycle.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Sentry).
• Experience with analytics frameworks (Mixpanel, WebEngage, or similar).

Good to Have

• Experience designing or maintaining design systems / component libraries.
• Familiarity with backend technologies and API design.
• Exposure to micro-frontend or large-scale frontend architectures.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and frontend DevOps practices.

Functional & Behavioral Skills

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Comfortable working with distributed global teams (Slack, Zoom, Google Meet).
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong bias for action, ownership, and delivery.
• Data-driven mindset with focus on productivity and quality metrics.

About CAW Studios

CAW Studios is a Product Engineering Company of 70+ engineers building and scaling SaaS products end-to-end.

Products we’ve built and run:

• Interakt
• CashFlo
• KaiPulse
• FastBar

We also power engineering for:

• Haptik
• EmailAnalytics
• GrowthZone
• Reliance General Insurance
• KWE Logistics

We are obsessed with automation, DevOps, OOPS, and SOLID principles. We don’t believe in rigid tech stacks—we believe in solving real problems well.

🌐 Website: https://www.caw.tech || https://www.knacklabs.ai/

About Optiblack LLC

Optiblack LLC is a company that specializes in providing tech and analytics services. We offer a range of solutions to help businesses meet their goals, including:

• Data Analytics: we can help you extract insights from your data to make informed decisions.
• Web Development: we can design and build custom websites for your business.
• Mobile App Development: we can create mobile apps for both iOS and Android platforms.
• AI and Machine Learning: we can leverage these technologies to automate tasks and improve efficiency.

Optiblack LLC has a team of experienced professionals who can help you with your project. They have a track record of success in delivering high-quality solutions to our clients.

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate and talented intern developer to join our growing team at Optiblack LLC. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience building and maintaining our React Native mobile application. You will work alongside experienced developers and contribute to a product used by millions of users.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new features and functionalities for our React Native mobile application.
• Collaborate with designers and backend developers to ensure a seamless user experience.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Fix bugs and identify areas for improvement in the existing codebase.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in React Native development.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of React Native development concepts.
• Experience with JavaScript (ES6+) and related frameworks.
• Familiarity with React development principles is a plus.
• Experience with Git version control system.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A passion for learning and staying updated with the latest technologies.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with building cross-platform mobile applications.
• Experience with UI/UX design principles.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks like Jest or Mocha.
• Experience working on Social Media Apps or having an interest in working on them.

** Internship Duration:** 3 Months

Location: Remote

To Apply:

Please submit your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the position and why you think you would be a good fit for our team

1. We are looking for Javascript wizards who can work with designers, product managers to collaboratively own the front-end, building responsive and elegant mobile+desktop web UIs at Mobishaala. Bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works.

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

• Hands-on design and coding are mandatory.
• Design and develop new features and functionality for a consumer e-commerce product with rich UI content.
• 5+ years of experience in building single-page applications using modern JS frameworks.
• Expertise in React JS, ES6, HTML5, SCSS, and related technologies.
• Experience building front-end for products from scratch.
• Experience in building REST API, preferably using .Net Web API.
• Should have good experience with application design, implementation, maintenance, diagnosing/correcting issues, and maintaining compliance with industry security standards under minimal direction.
• Research and evaluate new software, frameworks, and techniques to provide recommendations to the division.
• Implement defect free quality code by writing appropriate unit-tests and regression tests.
• Should possess excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field.

We are looking for individuals with a love for frontend, and building products with a great user experience. The ideal candidate is someone who has a collaborative process and is comfortable with ambiguity. You will be the earliest members of the product engineering team, and will have an opportunity to define the culture. If you enjoy the zero-to-one process, this is for you.

What you’ll do

• Be part of a team building a web and mobile web app from grounds up
• Drive frontend development for our product.
• Work fast, carefully evaluate the technical tradeoffs of every decision
• Collaborate with design and product on user experience and interface
• Build responsive & re-usable UI components using ReactJS
• Maintain code and write unit tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong proficiency in developing with Javascript/ReactJS/AngualrJS
• Strong command of HTML5 and CSS
• Comfortable collaborating with designers and translating designs into high-quality code
• Familiarity with REST APIs
• Familiarity with Git for version control
• Strong communication skills - verbal and written

Minimum Qualifications

A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields or relevant experience to demonstrate your abilities and aptitude

2+ years of experience in developing consumer or SaaS web apps or websites

Good to Have

Experience in building real-time frontend and backend data sync applications

Demonstrated an interest for UX and UI

Experience with: AWS, Shopify